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About The Lincoln home journal. (Lincolnton, GA.) 189?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1898)
?#r f ■ : . V- -• In , 4m 1 m Soon *l'?i ■ is ' 1 J/flpr : o % v a me k k* // l ^ k W' Is VOL. VI. And galloped down the west, ,0 ) easa?,**' '- , ^Audit's 6 wearyl^eary 0 waiting, love. The erhel , Wind , ., is rising wall. , - < With a whistle and a love.) f And it’s weary, weary waiting SSKSSSPMP' i - And it’s weary, weary waiting, THE CUBAN’S BSC APE. By DR. W. B. RULE. ITeUlng liovr an ry HeC»«l «al’vatio« and cakes con lTtL eX inHlvan“ and dagger.] in <lrn Sg ed wine talning silk cord a %. i Cubans made to il T% free from themselves the Span ish yoke ' there were several extraordinary experiences, following w The l .« one that 4 shows how the 'execution of a prisoner and was the almost .miraculously averted, is ver Charles Lee Cook, r^wat^: whom I met m Mexico. Hewosthen assistant pn secretary to President Diaz s predecessor. He was also connec e ■with the Associated Press, and p plied news telegrams to all the v .I- boy was a s employed fn a menial way on a man-of-war. I should have prob- 1 f&h VrU°To, a a nd remai e ka U btSen 8 * i»e“' State tore 1 be™ told able be- to [ore by others, but few are Wxow ia their bodies proof of their Teracity, Atm^aS^were aslcan Wlf th e ec c tSXZrtfS .y *^ it “ “ staut l picked it up “ d “^ rew “ over- o ;? !*T?- ar e th this, it -V wo nlrlhave been well for me. But my cun y , to run to of the ship to i Be the 8 J«“ 8 S . It l 0 were L_ several in numbei, and of large _ size.) I was taken to niy bunk, for some time lay between life and death. On my recovery, the captain considered that my act ought to be rewarded, and through bis instru¬ mentality I received a fair education, which enabled me to seek a ^career of a higher character than of. My life was, however, one wan¬ derings and many a£i£l$. vicissitudes. I TSXttrOab^Tin •" themselves 1 ___fVtvQlrlnm of the thraldom »" in iu - whichThey were made held by the Of Span- the iards. I was movement, a bow rebel rebel forces, forces. The .fkair, Ws was was not sufficiently well organ either as regards numbers ot Loyp a t a nts or means to gam the end in view. After various .skirmishes, which were generally disastrous to us, our forces became demoralized and scattered. The scouts sent out y the Government never ceased to hunt us, and there was but one sentence they took, which was to be shot. We were to hide in the woods and thickets and to keep away as far as possib tC from every known path, ^hile being driven my companions dwindled ^n number, until at last I was qiu e ‘alone. -I was for some days without tifood, nL except what I could gather the m shape of wild berries in HIs,- not daring, to venture ni the ^Knity Mkii ned of roads to me or was houses. my rifle All and that a ^^raounds of ammunition. wandering until PW^ day after ground I sat down on the to Preat 7 and lean my back rifle against might not a tree, be Jn Jtolen order that my iustorr while I was asleep, it was back my SSI! to place it betweeu my X dropped into a sound sleep Mow long 1 slept I don t, know, but.I was removed from its by my rifle being I ft PlTBSl P "¥al and soldiers 011 °P emng forming my eySS a cirde S T se ordered to get m rand I me. and I was L, in 'not the politest language, they had found mo out, and I ■bothing treatment, to look forward ignominious to now [brutal Irlsoameut of short an duration and l.death. I was immediately the fortress-, hand ■d ■a and taken to of Morro Castle. I Yf permitted klo^he to walk in the Si WAITING. rm. ® It’s weary wearf waiting love.) am s t“n tw“roS«>'“ J iS htpeMPWP And It’s weary, weary waiting, love. - The stretches of the ocean ;> Are A r bare D r and Weak to-day. love.) Ul t t> weary growing wea ry dimmer- waiting, eves are asv— B S KSRS Sv» , Laurence Dunbar, in the Cosmopolitan. arriving at the fortress my feet were chained together and ^ked l wa led to an inner room which had the appearance of a dungeon, and was made to sit on a wooden bench that was placed against the wall. Another chain, which was fastened to a staple in the wall, was passed round my chest and locked to a staple on the other side. Thus my hands, feet and body ^ in this position, wiino^ retxaS captur0 t ' informed that my j There - lace in a few d a s . ge0!ned to no hope. A few more thorf davs of existence awaited me, and then death deatn. What wnai could ouuiu I do? of No one that knew.me 1bad hej«d ^ ^"^^e any one (could an effort to com to hold me seemely until liltbeyinit tneyp an ^ drowning man a Englishman »»>■ that 74* might * be m to an do the Havana, and asked her to me kindness to deliver it. After two ay she said she could not find the person at the address given, or by inquiry- Eng then asked her to give it to any J the ^ parties> aud influential as soon as it became known to some pel raised whereby to make an effort some way to rescue me. The sum o $14,000 was promised to the a most man sin was selected as being to undertake the matter. I was informed at first that my case had excited much interest, and that was possible would be done to . sav6 me —. But no active steps cou day c be taken until the evening of the th., »< the *—**« tioa - of the te q agony ®^ 6 ° f those days V 9 What was in ^P tended to be 0 d done ^ kne w not. by day I bad in no eboioe bu ^ mingled ^ d d a3 ' I y { hope . was cer 0very sunse t brought me t^nty-fc) , f hours h nearer to the time set for taken 0 ut to be shot, LINCOLNTON, GA.. TH| Y, 'November it, ts98. possible, to induce the soldiers to take of the drugged wine, and as as they were asleep to take the from the one who kept them, whe I could unlock and remove my fetl I was then to dress in the unifor! one of them, and endeavor to past sentries and make*my perpendicular way to wall the] tery whose rcachird i down into the water. On battery I should see the cannons,xl were the position close to each of other triangle. and placj I wj a make down the for wall the by point, means and of let the nj j and my rescuers would be on tha out for me and receive me into! boat, and take me to a ship in till bor, til the where search I could for me remain would biddej be j doneu. In to case take I the could drugged not induj wj soldiers and endear was to use the dagger killing! hold of the keys after Well, now the escape was disclosed to me, P really any better off? What we chances of my being able to ca; out? Could I induce both soldiers who guarded me to ta, wine? And if I succeeded nnnnraH how could I pass the two sentn get to the spot from which I ’ lower myself to tb.e boat? were points which _ almost cus me, but to make a desperate therHM s was my only chance. If . but one chance in twenty of a I must do my utmost to accornf I could only now pass the rerl m days in gaining the confidencei soldiers who were on duty by How far were they, alas, meek from] sub ing that my apparent speaking o| to my fate, and as had only two oy three subtle days j were in reality but a SB securing their death and sa life! night question. soon came I had settle the ki task to perform, and well I one false step would spoil th< With that trepidation did I mychances.*- duly received the two b I x j I ca kes silk cord in the other, and n. mark of tbe bottle contail drugged vdn. M . ' wbicb I tegan TlfSllt, watcHH .JH . conversation with my , oe0(ledj x offered them wouw'akel both. as tht ", -V pai'falie more c of)my * “ keys readily tha W nn 1 d give & me somff ho my ^ removing Ts'-lV? , refused This vras at on,=e partook freely °f both c bu wSM Si ? 1 n , n A®® da L e r. M °. seized him i Q ft rara w same _ „tit $ife^i^fn^ U P° 1)een my g . d ag j dr ’ ) l °wn, I thrust tlie the bac ' hetorcel could could mustof bones, ‘J now between those it in with all my might. unde soldier was already e nce of the drugged wine, I Up to this moment the most ‘ the wall, ^ “ d aecured me to d th c01iatant guard of soldiers, di the innermost precincts of y m 7 , stronghold—of an enemy, “^d thelause wh°X completely van ^ I had es pousecl d wby vv y d i d I cherish a hope e of __ escape? mahe 1 up 1 my WasRjUiette 1 ; * gad fat ® aU ag calmly p^-CVhich Q ne thing 1 should gain was that m Y mind would J’ 1011(10 alternatives of hope and . de:spail. , • The suspense ■ P that wor se than the ceuaiuxy o my 1 impending ^ While u bem pinfft *hu bus ^ kept P in tbe between me ana e iT0i , a , l nhich e £^f bad be been ^te^ 10 “ re 3 “ u d d e ^ hat on tbe evening of to tbe be tbat on whicIl I was f hot ’-l messenger would bring me two cakes 1 wav y differing ° in ap- {’ pearance f ■ ould Q ^ £ k>8 sbop . Iu °F ® f K ld fi nd a small dag- 6 i, n the other a sUk cord which 0 was shon oj^ h t0 bear ^ my weight, . yonld Accompauji io , tlii^h Qf wi one of wouhl be heavily drugged,while the, muei won i 1 ‘ d contain pnlv j^ged pure . th -1 of my programme. the keys, A] got hold of my fetters and threw t then> in the quickest ti dressed myself in the un of the soldiers and wen dungeon toward the beat sentry I had to pass. _ 1 the musket of the man and then wore the ap^ sentinel. I had barely 1 ^ 1 dooi wlien an officer “Wh^o y cllallenged Mm once. tller e?” He answered by giving 1 the pass-word. He then passed without suspecting that anything v, I now reconnoitred as ^ as eould in the darkness of the nig and after a short time made out three cannons, at which point I v instructed to let myself down to boat B ut what was my dism.-f- wl . two ^ee discovered that there were soldiers sitting near by spot, apparently having a chat. I cided that I had better make my - to the opposite corner of the batt I passed the,next sentry without ti ble, on giving tbe pass-word. Be bad uow a terrible alternative. ' was to let myself down into the we and be probably devoured by sharks, and the other was to give keif up to be shot on the morrow cW ding to my sentence. I dec that I would take my chance with sharks. I began to lower mysen the silk cord, but before I had reached the water, oh, horror! I ^ “hartt Isyi-g NBt, but in a moment I was un¬ rad. It was the boat-hook of HHufeuers. ^Hrapusers They had seen my Hi against the wall as 1 myself, and had made for the BBH 6 noiselessly that I had not v fthem. They caught hold of received me into the boat, and H went as quietly as possible. Htat a revulsion in my feelings— [raft BHto of be going received into the into mouth the friendly of the Hja Hag They imagined. cannot be described, and • ler rescuers placed me on board a , in the harbor. An agree Hpad rafhim been made with the captain l^next $2000 for rescuing me. |||||d morning there was a great cry at the battery when they rathat their prisoner had escaped, were given that no ship was to he harbor until she bad been od. So as to prevent their §11 81 { full me of I was molasses. put in a The barrel ship two b was d in the morning, in common . 11 the rest in the harbor. The f the butt-end of the musket of ' the soldiers sounded in my I the barrel in which I was con | was hit, eh to see fruitless, if it was and empty, the sear was ;o detain the ships being with », H the captain cleared and was H ut of the harbor, and I was once i free man, after one of the most 1 cable escapes ever experienced. 8 )ii the narrator arrived at the ■ he called my attention to his Bad. I saw it was covered with Hof perspiration. He told me to Hthem. I did so; they were cold, lid he rarely alluded to that sub pis H it upset him for days after, could not relate the adventure lilt Hjl his forehead becoming bathed sweat.—The Wide World Mag- ORLD’S WHEAT SUPPLY. Says Science Must Increase It or There Will Be Starvation. William Crookes, President of •itish Association, delivered the fof address at the annual con that body at Bristol. He re jle f the wheat sources supply, of the and present argued and vl™ tlrougU fixation tbe l.bCT.tor, if the of the of the supply contained -m the atmos that fixed nitrogen lasted of Iue,of ^ tF&t $80,000,000 was ST,hi the atmosphere / was unlim h e problem as bow to utilize these stores of fixed nitrogen applied to the soil they would rathe average wheat crop e per P acre be obtained byutiliz agara Palls, and the fixed nitro h, p™au C ,d..u,a .0^5 William concluded his address asserting with much conviction views on psychic, espe telepathic phenomena, declar¬ bat scientific investigation was more exact knowledge on phenomena, ^ and mentioning | w0r0 throwill tbe darkness William James, United jtrongliold |e in Britisli Columbia. is town of Esquimault, B. C., e razed and wiped out of exist So the British Government has red. Upon its site will arise one e greatest fortresses of the world. ] iornians, point is of because particular this interest maguifi- to iy designed stronghold will be door to us, in British Columbia, t above the Washington State Some idea of its proposed rgth may be gained when it is yn that the British engineers have idy dubbed it “The New Gibral Jle plan contemplates the equip } t of a store, repair, and supply on second to none in the empire; ? building and manning of forts ,ble of defendingthisdepotagainst force that could be brought nst it by sea or land; the provid of docks large enough to receive best and biggest examples of ma architectural skill, and the estab ‘ment 01 barracks, a service prison, other necessary buildings for the and benefit of the numerous sol - 3 and sailors who will be required f old the forts and man the ships of station.—San Francisco Call, wimt Fiseons Can Do )urin g the recent French naval iceuvres in the Mediterranean, n i ra i Humana let fly from the flag p Brennus teji pigeons at 175 miles n Porquerolles. Three of the num- 1 W ere lost, but seven arrived ,i y> having averageespeed accomplished of the, tweftty- dis ce at a u > miles an hour. ; The pigeons had , n absent from their houses twenty -Hays, and the result of this ex is considered highly satis- LOBSTERING IN MAINE. -r Thos« Who Follow It Have to Endure Much Hardships. One of the most profitable indus¬ tries down on the coast of Maine is “lobsterin’.” It is a laborious occupa¬ tion, and those who follow it have to endure much hardship and exposure and many perils from the sea. Lob¬ sters are eaugbt on rocky bottoms in “traps” or “pots,” which are made of hickory saplings after the fashion of a crockery crate. At the two small ends holes are arranged with spikes of flexible wood running to a focus, so that the lobster, tempted to enter by a bait bung from the center, finds it impossible to get codfish out. The most common bait are beads and other fish which are too plentiful and unpopular to be salable in market. The pots are submerged in two or three fathoms of water with stone sinkers and their location marked by short logs of wood fastened to them by ropes and allowed to float on the surface. Twice a day, at sunrise and at sun¬ set, the pots are visited and the lob¬ sters taken out and thrown into a chest in the boat with a lot of seaweed to keep them fresh and give them “something to chaw on.” After the pots have all been emptied the lob¬ sters are taken to a large “float” at some convenient spot, where they are transferred to a tank and kept until called for. Lobsterers who are convenient to towns sell most of their catch in the local market. Those who are work¬ ing at distant and isolated spots along the coast are visited every week or ten days by tugs fitted up with large tanks or reservoirs capable of holding from 10,000 to 15,000 lobsters. These vessels patrol regularly up and down the coast, and when their tanks are full drop in at Boston or New York and unload. This year lobsters are worth from’twelve to seventeen cents each, according to size, and the catch¬ ers are paid cash as they are delivered. In Boston and New York they sell from twenty to thirty cents each, but by the time they get to the retailers they have doubled in value. The life of the lobsterer is lonely as well as dangerous. He generally lives alone in a cabin on a rocky island, cooks his own meals of fish and bacon and spends bis days catch¬ ing bait for his traps. Nearly all of them have lobster “farms,” where the undersized lobsters and those with spawn are imprisoned in salt-water ponds to grow and breed. The law protects the traffic by imposing a heavy fine upon the sale of small ones.— Chicago Record. WORDS OF WISDOM. Nothing ages like laziness.—Bulwer. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.— Tolstoi. A man of integrity will never listen to any plea against conscience.— Home. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it,—Plato. A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family.—Thomas Scott. When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men.—Longfellow. We are always complaining that cur days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.— Seneca. No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.— A. T. Stewart. An inquisitive man is a creature naturally very vacant of thought it¬ self, and therefore forced to apply to foreign assistance.—Steele. When -we would, with utmost de¬ testation, single some monster from the traitor herd, ’tis but to say in¬ gratitude is his crime.—Froude. Insincerity in a man’s own heart must make all his enjoyments—all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.—Hawthorne. Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.—Cer¬ vantes. How Consuls Get Kicli. The absolute necessity for acquiring all the money possible during his term of office often leads the Consul into the temptation of making exorbitant charges,'writes a correspondent of the Chicago Post. One day, while I was engaged upon a deposition, a visiting confrere from Italy strolled into the office. There were a great many ques¬ tions and answers, and I charged the regular fee, $2.50, for the entire ser¬ vice. When we were alone my brother Consul said to me: “Why, you don’t know how to work your office for all it is worth.” “Isn’t that right,” I asked, “$2.50 for an oath?” “Certainly,” he replied, “but I make them swear to every answer separately, T}iat. paper would have been worth at least $150.to me.” ! The value of the annual plum crop iu France i, $8,000,000. - NO. 24. 7 HORSES IN HISTORY.^ 1 A Few ct Those That Have Been Had*' Famons. Readers of Macaulay will remember the famous black Auster, the horse oft, Herminlus, and the dark gray charger of Mamilius, whose sudden appearance, in the city of Tuseulum without his master brought the news of the defeat of the allies at Lake Regrillus. Con¬ nected with that battle, too, were th® horses ®f the great “twin brethren, 1 ’ Castor and Pollux, coal black, with white legs and tails. But those are legendary. Not so. however, the well-j known horse of Caligula, Incitatus. This animal had a stable of marble;; his stall was of ivory, his clothing of purple, and his halters stiff with gems.; He had a set of golden plates, and wa» presented with a palace, furniture and slaves complete, in order that guesta; invited in his name should be proper ly entertained. His diet was the mast costly that could be imagined, finest grapes that Asia could providal being reserved for him. Venn, another Roman about a century later, treated his almost as extravagantly. He fed with raisins and almonds with his hands, and when he died, erected statue nitaries of gold to him, while all the dig’ of the empire attended the full eral. As we come to later times, ho||§| il we get more examples of favorite es. William the Conqueror Hasting!! had oSM that he rode at the battle of about which almost everything se to be known except his name, was of huge size and was a pro. from King Alfonso of Spain—"sue_ __ gift as a prince might give and a pr lli jdid receive.” not survive This gallant the battle, horse, for how< G Ig W * Harold’s butcher, “clove him w bill, and he died.” Richard I.’s - was called Maleck, and was jet blacl He bore his master through the holy *war and arrived in England bqfortt' him; in fact, he survived the kin# several years. The second Richard, too, had a favorite horse, called Roan Barbary, which was supposed to be the finest horse in Europe at that time, and it was on Roan Barbary that tha young king was mounted when the in¬ cident wherein Wat Tyler was- stabbed by the mayor of Walworth to>pk place. About a century later we gdt to the Wars of the Roses, and |k tfhe many battles of that civil distf| nee two horses played important part These belonged to the great Earl of Y. T arwR.' t the beautiful kingmaker. His first wa s Maleck) a gray, which he rode at the battle of Towton. It was this horse whose death turned the fortunes of the battle, for Warwick, seeing that his men were giving ground deliberately sprung from his favorite horse and killed him. Then his men knew that the kingmaker was prepared to con¬ quer, hut not to fly. They rallied and finally won the battle.---London Stan¬ dard. rtT-DiSE ASi-g, It is safe to say that a fai greater amount of misery is caused b: suppos¬ ed heart trouble than by a'-tuffi di* asa of that organ. This t s di„, i;1 rbc drst place to the fact that siipp, sed heart troubles, functional troubles as they are called, are much nu»r e cumeroua if than the real, the organic dLeases; and in the second plac* (o ae fact that true heart disease shows with comparative infreq UeaC y, by* symptoms which the patient can discove . whereas thfc nalpitat the thumping in ’he sound of surging blood k » the the noise of the expressionflBHH laborec«raffi| common or functional disturban action. PUESENCK 01 1 ' Excited Lady (to neighbor)—Hurry ! ’ I ■ ’■ tor. My husband ba mit suicide. He ha four times. m Next-door Neighb use of getting the don’t think any of prove fatal, why do! gun for him ? GEORGIA mm M A. Connei For Information a: —nlea and J Passenger! Write to either o: Yon will informati receivj reliable JOE. W. WHITl I T. P. A. Augii 8 . W. WILKESI AI C. F. & P. Atla, W. W. HARD) S. A. Macor M. R. HUDSCi J S. F. gevillj A. Milled
